September 06, 2004 10:44AM
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Well obviously not; I'm not an operator of it so I wouldn't know more else about operating that 'thing'...HOWEVER if you do want to talk about problems with quality of this stuff...I can post direct stories concerning the poor quality of the Multipower Chinese step-top whistles...if this is an example of the workmanship on all components, you'd get a pretty shoddy engine there...with about the "Made in China" workmanship you expect from bamboo and rattan junk you buy at Cost Plus! I have always said is best to give ALL business, wherever possible, to companies/workers within the US...as I second the remark about American shopmen building the SVRy Mallets.
If you go to their website; you'll see (first off, I don't know how they can put photographs of locomotives they didn't build/restore...such as Clinchfield #1 which has been in the B&O museum for years)
Two links:
(http://www.multipowerinternational.com/narrow.html)
Scroll down to see "the circus train from hell", ie some shoddy little 0-4-0T.
And the real joke:
(http://www.multipowerinternational.com/clips/600.wav)
By far probably one of the poorest sound clips; taken from a muffled cab. The whistle is literally 1/4 second of the clip, and it sounds crappy as hell...
They also, of course, sell the retired/reconditioned SY and other locomotives. I was told (and can imagine) the boilers are crap and don't meet US code, therefore requiring any major rebuild. One was on eBay once.
-EK
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